The findings could help answer a longstanding question about how Mars transformed from a potentially habitable world with ...

Accidental contamination shows how even NASA missions can send resilient Earth microbes to other planets, risking false ...

NASA scientists have discovered evidence that could help answer questions surrounding the history of water loss on Mars.

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

Using computer models, students Mohammad Afzal Shadab and Eric Hiatt estimated how long it would have taken water to seep ...

In an unexpected twist, NASA scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—right inside one of the ...

Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

Can Mars become a second Earth? Explore the science, challenges, and future of terraforming Mars for human colonization.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still can’t rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale ...

But the latest research tells a different story. Using machine learning and one of the most comprehensive datasets ever ...